TAPPING OUT THE ROOTS OF PAIN, FEAR AND LIMITATION

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EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques, a system of emotional and physical healing using traditional Chinese acupuncture meridians—with finger tapping, rather than needles. Results are typically rapid and dramatic, and EFT often works when nothing else does.

What sets EFT apart from other traditional talk therapy and even other ‘energy psychology’ methods such as EMDR, is that anyone can learn to do EFT—even young children can learn the ‘basic recipe’, and it can be used to effectively treat oneself.

It is also a virtually painless therapy—you don’t have to re-live traumatic memories or delve deep into painful emotions to decrease their intensity and release their hold on your life.

Self-sabotaging and limiting beliefs can also be identified and ‘tapped out’ using EFT, freeing your potential in all areas. This has been called the ‘missing ingredient’ in The Secret, enabling affirmations to really work.

Einstein discovered long ago that all physical matter (including the human body) is made of energy. Though the body may appear to be solid, its foundation is energetic at its core. Gary Craig, the founder of EFT, writes:

“The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system."

And because our physical pains and diseases are so obviously connected with our emotions the following statement has also proven to be true...

"Our unresolved negative emotions are major contributors to most physical pains and diseases."

By mentally focusing on a distressing memory, current situation or future fear, the emotional disruption is brought up to the surface of your energy system, where tapping on the points can smooth it out, eliminating the distress. The memory stays but the bothersome feelings are gone. It really is amazing to experience.

Learning Basic EFT.

We start with the set up statement: Even though I have this ________, I deeply and completely accept myself.

If you have a headache you would say ‘Even though I have this headache, I deeply and completely accept myself’. Say this three times while tapping the karate chop point with your fingers.

Next, starting at the top of the head, tap each point five to seven times while repeating ‘this headache’ over and over. For the eye, collar bone, and under arm points you can tap just one side, or both together. For the wrist point, you can tap one side with your fingers or tap your wrists together. Don’t worry about being super accurate with the points, you’ll get them. And you don’t need to tap very hard. Harder isn’t better.

A whole round takes less than a minute to do—it’s really that simple. This video demonstrates the basic method.

Before you start, it can be very helpful to try and measure how intense your issue is on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being maximum discomfort. If you aren’t sure, just guess. This way you can measure your progress. Believe it or not, you may begin to forget how bad your issue was when you started.

If you don’t get down to zero the first round, do another, and another. Keep at it—persistence really pays off. It’s tempting to stop short, once we get down to a 2 or 4 and feel some real relief, but try to go for a zero.

If you don’t seem to be getting anywhere, go back to the set up statement. The more specific your issue or memory, the better EFT tends to work. You may also want to really emphasize that ‘deeply and completely accept myself’ part.

If you are addressing a complex issues, it may have many aspects to it—as each one is resolved a new one pops up. A really big issue may take focus and persistence. And sometimes a practitioner can be really helpful!

You can try EFT on anything and everything bothersome to you. Gary Craig has a website full of amazing resources (including a free 80 page manual to download) and I strongly recommend checking it out. From the website you can also subscribe to his free weekly newsletter.

But don’t wait to try EFT. Do it right now!!